ID

FBW001687      Short fiction

Country / Year

USA, 1953

Original Title

The Key

Directed by

Bernard Euslin

Produced by

United Jewish Appeal (UJA), New York, NY; in partnership with Columbia Pictures Corporation, Los Angeles, CA / New York, NY

Staff

Script: Raphael Levy, Bernard Euslin; Camera: Yitzhak Herbst; Editing: Edward Curtis

Cast

Moshe Dagon (David)

Length

155,1 m / 14'09''

Format

16mm/sw/1:1,37

Further Remarks

1. In engl. Sprache.

Abstract

Fundraiser (The building of the Key Campaign in Los Angeles). Story of a young boy living in a ma'abara in the 50's, and of the housing conditions in the early years of the state.

Subject Terms

1950-1959; Transit camps; Immigrants; Immigration; Fundraising; Israel; Camps; Agriculture; Los Angeles; Ma'abarot

Holdings

- Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archive, Jerusalem: 155,1 m / 14'09''; 16mm

Bibliography

- Abraham F. Rad Jewish Film Archives (Hg.): Filmography. Catalogue of Jewish Films in Israel. Jerusalem: The Hebrew University, 1972
- Fox, Stuart: Jewish Films in the United States. New York, NY: K.G. Hall, 1976